MILAN, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The writing was on the wall – and had the person’s ardour for ice hockey been matched by a love of Italian music he could have noticed it.
Milan police arrested a 44-year-old Slovak nationwide on Wednesday night, performing on a warrant issued towards him by Italian prosecutors 16 years earlier, the native Carabinieri police power stated in an announcement.
To Italians, the case echoes the plot of “The Bandit and the Champion”, a well-known ballad impressed by early Twentieth-century outlaw Sante Pollastri, which tells of a legal captured at a biking occasion, after a years-long manhunt, as he turned as much as watch a childhood pal cross the end line.
Regardless of being on the Italian police needed listing, the Slovak man returned to the nation to observe the nationwide hockey crew on the Winter Olympics, the Carabinieri stated.
Police tracked down the person after he checked in at a guesthouse on the outskirts of Milan and took him to the central San Vittore jail.
The person, who had deliberate to attend Slovakia’s opening ice hockey sport on Wednesday, has 11 months and 7 days to serve for a string of store thefts he dedicated in 2010, the Carabinieri stated.
Slovakia’s males’s hockey crew debuted on the Milano Cortina Video games on Wednesday with a 4-1 win over Finland at Milan’s Santagiulia Area.
